Fostering Altruism in Elementary School

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10.2991/assehr.k.200130.092How to use a DOI?

Keywords

altruism, empathy, elementary school

Abstract

Altruism is an important factor in maintaining the continuity of social life in society, especially in high diversity communities such as Indonesia. Research shows individuals tend to show altruistic behavior in other people who have similarities with them, such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and race so that altruism in a multicultural environment tends to be difficult to be formed. Therefore, altruism needs to be developed early in school. The right age to develop altruism is at the age of 11–12 years or in the fifth grade of elementary school. So it can be assumed that the effort to develop altruism will be more effective if done in elementary schools. This article was written to explore various efforts to develop altruism that can be done at the elementary school level based on the theory of Batson’s altruistic empathy hypothesis. This is because the helping behavior carried out on the basis of empathy can certainly be included in the altruist category.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Iklima Istiqomah
AU  - Mamat Supriatna
AU  - Nandang Budiman
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/07
TI  - Fostering Altruism in Elementary School
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 110
EP  - 113
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.092
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.092
ID  - Istiqomah2020
ER  -